Tamil Nadu, on Friday, became the second State in India to register more than 1 lakh COVID-19 cases. The other State is Maharashtra with over 1.9 lakh cases till date.

Globally, coronavirus case count exceeded 110 lakh, marking another milestone in the spread of the disease that has killed more than five lakh people in seven months.

Here is a list of State Helpline numbers. You can track coronavirus cases, deaths and testing rates at the national and State levels here.

Here are the latest updates:

Assam govt starts plasma bank; first donor is doctor who recovered from COVID-19

In a bid to treat coronavirus patients, a plasma bank started functioning at a hospital in Assam on Friday with the first donor being a doctor who recovered from COVID-19, Health and Family Welfare Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

The plasma bank has been set up at the Guwahati Medical College Hospital (GMCH), he said.

The donor is the first doctor who tested positive for COVID-19 in the State at the GMCH, Mr. Sarma said, while expressing his gratitude to him for donating plasma and to the team working at the bank. - PTI

WHO says first alerted to virus by its office, not China

The World Health Organisation has updated its account of the early stages of the COVID-19 crisis to say it was alerted by its own office in China, and not by China itself, to the first pneumonia cases in Wuhan.

On April 9, WHO published an initial timeline of its communications, partly in response to criticism of its early response to the outbreak. In that chronology, WHO had said only that the Wuhan municipal health commission in the province of Hubei had on December 31 reported cases of pneumonia. The UN health agency did not however specify who had notified it.

UP minister, wife test positive for COVID-19, admitted to hospital

Uttar Pradesh Rural Development Minister Rajendra Pratap Singh (Moti Singh) and his wife have been admitted to the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences here after they tested positive for COVID-19.

Asked about his health, Mr. Singh told PTI on Saturday, “I am fine.”

Asked how long is he expected to stay in the hospital, he said, “I came here only on Friday. I will follow the doctors’ advice.”

Mr. Singh is a four-time MLA from Patti in Pratapgarh district. - PTI

Strict enforcement of curfew in Karnataka on Sunday

The Sunday curfew in Karnataka will be strictly enforced from 8 p.m. on Saturday to 5 a.m. on Monday. It will not be any different from the restrictions imposed during previous curfews and lockdowns, said B.H. Anil Kumar, Commissioner of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). “The restrictions that were in place then will be imposed now also,” he told The Hindu.

Exceptions will be made only for essential services and emergencies.

Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao reiterated that enforcement will be strict. “Barring an emergency, vehicles on the road will be confiscated.” he said.

What will be open: All shops selling essential commodities like medicine, milk and groceries. Hotels for takeaways.

What will be shut: Public transport - buses, autos and cabs. Places of worship. Malls and dine-in service at hotels and restaurants. Shops selling non-essential commodities, including liquor.

Quick update on today's COVID-19 numbers:

India has registered a record single-day spike of 22,771 COVID-19 cases, as per the latest Health Ministry update.

This pushes India’s total case tally to 6,48,315. The death toll has risen to 18,655 with 442 new deaths, says the government.

There are 2,35,433 active cases in the country. Nearly four lakh people (3,94,226) have recovered so far.

Mizoram postpones opening of schools for 2020-21 academic session

The Mizoram government has postponed the opening of schools for the 2020-21 academic session for an indefinite period as a part of the containment measures to curb the coronavirus outbreak, a minister said.

The government had earlier decided to open educational institutions for the current academic session from July 15.

“We would not be able to open schools during this month as the Union Ministry of Home Affairs directed all the States not to open educational and training institutes till July 31 due to the increasing COVID-19 cases in the country,” Mizoram education minister Lalchhandama Ralte said on Friday. - PTI

WHO sees first results from COVID drug trials within two weeks

The World Health Organization should soon get results from clinical trials it is conducting of drugs that might be effective in treating COVID-19 patients, its Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday.

“Nearly 5,500 patients in 39 countries have so far been recruited into the Solidarity trial,” he told a news briefing, referring to clinical studies the U.N. agency is conducting. “We expect interim results within the next two weeks.” - Reuters

Govt revises dosage of anti-viral drug remdesivir to be administered to coronavirus patients

The Union health ministry on Friday revised the dosage of anti-viral drug remdesivir to be administered to coronavirus patients in the moderate stage of illness from the earlier six days to five days as it issued an updated ‘Clinical Management Protocols for COVID-19’

The drug, administered in the form of injection, should be given at a dose of 200 mg on day one followed by 100 mg daily for four days (total five days), the new treatment protocols stated. - PTI

Almost a third of COVID-19 samples show mutation, but not worse disease, says WHO

Almost 30% of genome sequencing data from samples of the COVID-19 virus collected by the World Health Organization (WHO) have shown signs of mutation, but there is no evidence this has led to more severe disease, a top WHO official said on Friday.

“I think it's quite widespread,” Soumya Swaminathan, WHO chief scientist, told Reuters on the sidelines of a briefing held by the U.N. journalists' association ACANU in Geneva.

118 days after first case, T.N.’s tally breaches 1 lakh

After recording the first case of COVID-19 on March 7, Tamil Nadu’s overall tally of cases breached the one lakh-mark on Friday.

With 4,329 new cases, the State accounted for a total of 1,02,721 cases of which 42,955 persons were under treatment. Tamil Nadu’s total case count crossed the 10,000-mark on May 15. In a little over a month, 40,000 more cases were added and positive cases touched 50,000 on June 17. The State reported 50,000 new cases in the last 16 days.